President Joe Biden released a fiscal 2022 budget outline Friday that includes a $3.8 billion increase for the Agriculture Department that is heavily directed toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions and making farms and forests more resilient to climate change.

In this opinion piece, Lloyd Ritter with the Agriculture Energy Coalition discusses how USDA can expand and improve already existing programs to be climate focused.

Housing the homeless on a farm * Drought deepens * New aid bill keeps ag provisions * CFAP-2 will aid farmers into 2021

Wine groups in California, Washington and Oregon are calling on Congress to extend the wildfire and hurricane relief program.

Conservationists eye SGMA fallowing * Trump to GOP: Back ‘higher’ COVID aid * Are farm payments ‘socialist?’

USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service has approved California waivers for purchasing foods through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Costa talks aid bill, fires and farm bill * Dems: COVID aid not dead yet